At first glance, this looks like an odd partnership: Mozilla just announced that it has recently begun collaborating with Samsung on Servo, its next generation browser engine.
Then, on Tuesday I got an email from Mozilla, asking if I had time to get on the phone with Mozilla's CTO Brendan Eich to talk about the organization's next generation browser engine Servo and the Rust language it is written in.
HTML5 and the WebKit rendering engine already drive the web experience on devices like the iPhone, iPad, and Android, but are increasingly becoming the lowest common denomination on the desktop web in next generation browsers like Google's Chrome, and Apple's Safari.
Though not part of our survey, it is worth mentioning some new 'next generation' browsers that are now being developed or are currently deployed.
Now Netscape has released a preview version of its next-generation browser software, Netscape 6.0.
Those efforts culminated last week in the arrival of a new technology, known as P3P, appearing in the company's next-generation browser, Internet Explorer 6, that promises to make privacy protection automatic.
Earlier this year, America Online released a preview version of its next-generation browser, Netscape 6.0, long delayed but praised in the trade press for its streamlined design and novel features.
But Mozilla's next-generation browser, known as Firebird, is looking to be far more intriguing.
The server first returns the orthologous genes (Table 1) for the query gene with links to Ensembl [ 40] and UCSC [ 20] genome browsers, as well as to a specific island viewer we have developed on the basis of the JBrowse next-generation browser [ 37, 38].
In response, 'next-generation' browsers like AnnoJ (http://www.annoj.org), JBrowse (Skinner et al., 2009) and ABrowse (Kong et al., 2012) have been built to take advantage of modern web technologies, adding more seamless interactions that preserve the user's sense of location while traversing the massive 'landscape' of a genome.
The core of this strategy was ensuring that the firms comprising the most effective channels for the generation of browser usage would devote their distributional and promotional efforts to Internet Explorer rather than Navigator.
